US envoy weighs in as outrage snowballs
US Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim expressed hopes Tuesday that those who killed 17-year-old Kian Loyd delos Santos in ...
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Remittances rose 4.7% to $13.8b in six months
Money sent home by Filipinos working overseas rose 4.7 percent in the first half to $13.8 billion from $13.2 billion ...
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Remittances rebound 5.5%
Money sent home by Filipinos working overseas rebounded 5.5 percent in May to $2.310 billion from $2.188 billion a year ...
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Trade deficit likely to hit $28b
The country’s growing appetite for imported products will likely bloat the trade deficit to a record $28 billion this year, ...
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Remittances rise 5% to $26.9b
Money sent home by Filipinos working overseas grew 5 percent to a record $26.9 billion in 2016 from $25.607 billion ...
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Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.